Top Names of 1896
The most popular names recorded in 1896 were Mary for girls
and John for boys. Full top-50 lists below, from official SSA data.
Girls
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Mary | 13,811 |
| 2 | Anna | 5,860 |
| 3 | Helen | 4,392 |
| 4 | Margaret | 4,050 |
| 5 | Ruth | 3,905 |
| 6 | Ethel | 3,502 |
| 7 | Elizabeth | 3,471 |
| 8 | Florence | 3,323 |
| 9 | Marie | 3,087 |
| 10 | Emma | 2,872 |
| 11 | Lillian | 2,702 |
| 12 | Alice | 2,651 |
| 13 | Edna | 2,604 |
| 14 | Clara | 2,582 |
| 15 | Bertha | 2,565 |
| 16 | Minnie | 2,530 |
| 17 | Grace | 2,485 |
| 18 | Bessie | 2,435 |
| 19 | Annie | 2,358 |
| 20 | Rose | 2,341 |
| 21 | Mabel | 2,283 |
| 22 | Hazel | 2,226 |
| 23 | Gertrude | 2,221 |
| 24 | Ida | 2,159 |
| 25 | Pearl | 2,101 |
| 26 | Martha | 2,022 |
| 27 | Esther | 1,964 |
| 28 | Frances | 1,964 |
| 29 | Edith | 1,932 |
| 30 | Myrtle | 1,928 |
| 31 | Elsie | 1,878 |
| 32 | Eva | 1,779 |
| 33 | Gladys | 1,757 |
| 34 | Nellie | 1,696 |
| 35 | Sarah | 1,691 |
| 36 | Ella | 1,683 |
| 37 | Laura | 1,665 |
| 38 | Agnes | 1,654 |
| 39 | Mildred | 1,620 |
| 40 | Catherine | 1,594 |
| 41 | Irene | 1,593 |
| 42 | Louise | 1,531 |
| 43 | Lillie | 1,483 |
| 44 | Julia | 1,407 |
| 45 | Carrie | 1,388 |
| 46 | Dorothy | 1,366 |
| 47 | Hattie | 1,320 |
| 48 | Lena | 1,318 |
| 49 | Mattie | 1,288 |
| 50 | Josephine | 1,256 |
Boys
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | John | 8,138 |
| 2 | William | 7,747 |
| 3 | James | 5,206 |
| 4 | George | 4,286 |
| 5 | Charles | 3,639 |
| 6 | Joseph | 3,051 |
| 7 | Frank | 2,845 |
| 8 | Robert | 2,719 |
| 9 | Edward | 2,296 |
| 10 | Henry | 2,183 |
| 11 | Harry | 2,091 |
| 12 | Thomas | 2,088 |
| 13 | Walter | 2,017 |
| 14 | Arthur | 1,821 |
| 15 | Albert | 1,434 |
| 16 | Fred | 1,393 |
| 17 | Clarence | 1,254 |
| 18 | Willie | 1,092 |
| 19 | Roy | 1,027 |
| 20 | Paul | 964 |
| 21 | Earl | 892 |
| 22 | Louis | 871 |
| 23 | Harold | 862 |
| 24 | Raymond | 859 |
| 25 | Carl | 852 |
| 26 | Richard | 834 |
| 27 | Joe | 767 |
| 28 | David | 765 |
| 29 | Ernest | 764 |
| 30 | Ralph | 746 |
| 31 | Samuel | 734 |
| 32 | Charlie | 714 |
| 33 | Howard | 677 |
| 34 | Herbert | 635 |
| 35 | Jesse | 586 |
| 36 | Elmer | 576 |
| 37 | Andrew | 566 |
| 38 | Daniel | 561 |
| 39 | Francis | 551 |
| 40 | Jack | 539 |
| 41 | Oscar | 539 |
| 42 | Alfred | 527 |
| 43 | Sam | 518 |
| 44 | Will | 508 |
| 45 | Eugene | 507 |
| 46 | Lawrence | 499 |
| 47 | Leo | 497 |
| 48 | Lee | 455 |
| 49 | Herman | 427 |
| 50 | Ray | 426 |